turned away.

Lieutenant Bezan was too well aware of General Harero's intimacy at
the house of Don Gonzales, not to understand the meaning of the
rebuke and exhibition of bitterness on the part of his superior
towards him. The general, although he possessed a fine commanding
figure, yet was endowed with no such personal advantages to
recommend him to a lady's eye as did the young officer who had thus
provoked him, and he could not relish the idea that one who had
already rendered such signal services to the Senorita Isabella and
her father, even though he was so very far below himself in rank,
should become too intimate with the family. It would be unfair
towards Lieutenant Bezan to suppose that he did not possess
sufficient judgment of human nature and discernment to see all this.

He could not but regret that he had incurred the ill will of his
general, though it was unjustly entertained, for he knew only too
well how rigorous was the service in which he was engaged, and that
a superior officer possessed almost absolute power over those placed
in his command, in the Spanish army, even unto the sentence of
death. He had too often been the unwilling spectator, and even at
times the innocent agent of scenes that were revolting to his better
feelings, which emanated solely from this arbitrary power vested in
heartless and incompetent individuals by means of their military
rank. Musing thus upon the singular state of his affairs, and the
events of the last two days, so important to his feelings, now
recalling the bewitching glances of the peerless Isabella Gonzales,
and now ruminating upon the ill will of General Harero, he strolled
into the city, and reaching La Dominica's, he threw himself upon a
lounge near the marble fountain, and calling for a glass of agrass,